Glenn Counseling Monthly
October 2020
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
October in National Bullying Prevention Month, a time to focus and raise awareness on bullying.
What is Bullying?
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying can also take place through technology, known as cyberbullying. Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.
There are many other types of aggressive behavior that don’t fit the definition of bullying. This does not mean that they are any less serious or require less attention than bullying. Rather, these behaviors require different prevention and response strategies.
National Bullying Prevention Month
Beginning in October 2006, PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, along with the National Education Association, National PTA, American Federation for Teachers, and the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education, hosted the first awareness week sponsoring events and activities to raise awareness of the issue of bullying throughout the month. PACER realized that students, parents, and people throughout the country needed to become more aware of the serious consequences of bullying. The point of National Bullying Prevention Month was to transform a society that accepts bullying into a society that recognizes that bullying must – and can – be addressed through education and support.
Source: https://youth.gov/feature-article/national-bullying-prevention-month
BlueUp Day! - Monday Oct. 05th
The first Monday of October is World Day of Bullying Prevention! On this day, students all over the world go blue #BlueUp together against bullying. We wear blue shirts to use our voices to send a message to be heard all around the world in preventing bullying and encouraging respect.
Decision of Respect Signing Day - Friday Oct. 09th
District Wide Day of Decision of Respect signing Day is a day we make a promise that our behaviors will show that we care about ourselves, classmates, and school. We will avoid and report any bullying and cyber bullying situations. We will report anything that seems unsafe at school to our teachers, counselors, and principals. And we promise to do our very best at school every day.
Red Ribbon Week - October 26th-30th
Daily themes for the week
What will students learn in guidance lessons this month
Mindfulness Skills: 5,4,3,2,1 Grounding Strategy
Week of October 12th: The student will build positive relationships with peers, learn the importance of standing up for yourself and others, learn what it means to be an upstander and demonstrate empathy toward their peers.
Mindfulness Skill: Rainbow Breathing
Week of October 19th: Students will discuss and learn to not jump to conclusions when they come across something new, foreign, strange, or different and to use their words to communicate their feelings.
Mindfulness Skill: 5 Finger Breathing
Week of October 26th: Students will be able to define bullying. Students will be able to identify tools to use when facing a bullying situation.
Mindfulness Skill: Mountain Breathing
October Mindfulness Skills
Rainbow Breath
5,4,3,2,1 Grounding Strategy
5 Finger Breathing
Lunch with the Counselor- Chat and Chew
Grades Kinder -2nd Tuesday's 11:15-11:40
Join Zoom Meeting, link will be found on Schoology!
Table Topics
Grades 3rd-5th Wednesday's 11:50-12:20
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San Antonio Food Bank MEGA Food Bank Distribution
Northside ISD has partnered with the San Antonio Food Bank in hosting MEGA Food Bank distributions since mid-April. Many families have suffered the loss of employment and are struggling to meet the financial hardships that the pandemic has created.
Northside hosts the distributions on the first and third Friday mornings of each month at Gus Stadium located at Loop 410 and Culebra Road.
Future distributions are scheduled on Oct. 2, Oct. 16, Nov. 6, Nov. 20, and Dec. 4.
Families must pre-register and arrive by 9 am on the day of the distribution.
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